Review:
The slow, gradual rise of the Guangzhou Underground imprint has mirrored that of China's emerging house scene, which it was set up - in part - to celebrate. The label's latest EP gathers together previously unheard cuts from label regulars present and future. Alex Agore, who had the honour of putting out the first EP on the imprint in 2014, impresses with the breezy, bouncy, soul-flecked, UK garage-inspired "No1Else", while Spangleman offers up a chunk of elastic, off-kilter house/funk fusion, in the shape of jammed-out shuffler "Access To Success". Band Of Misfits' take us back to the early '90s with the piano-heavy, disco-house bump of "Wanna Go Dancin", before Stijn Van Wijk rounds off a solid EP with the loose, analogue-sounding deep house shimmer of "Specter".